In the UK is there a gulf opening between the armed forces and the rest of society?

Question

We hear the military leaders complaining regularly about our lack of support for them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7090000/newsid_7093200/7093260.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&news=1&ms3=4&nol_storyid=7093260


http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiUCcFkhbmHoBbfdK4MpiXbygO-Q

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7090134,00.html

Answer 1

I think it is a tough call for the armed forces personel right now. They are involved in a war that has very little support from the general public, yet the government tells everyone is important.
I have never supported the action in Iraq that Blair forced this country to do, however coming from a military family, I do support the troops!

Answer 2

No I don't think this is true, I think most civilians respect the hard job that military people have to do.
I think the gulf is between ordinary people on the one hand (both military and civilian) and the government on the other hand which has deployed armed forces in places where we don't belong. (Iraq is the obvious one, but I'm also thinking of Bosnia etc over the last 10 years or so).
The purpose of the military should be to defend *this* country not fight someone else's war in another country.

Answer 3

yes it is. people are not interested anymore because they didn't want the Iraq war. i think that's sad. our soldiers are doing their job,whether the war was justified or not is not up to them and has got nothing to do with them.

and then you get a lot of people who say that everybody knows what they let themselves into when they join up. well yes,people know that but they still decide to join,so respect to them! besides some people seem to forget that soldiers have got rights like anybody else. if a civi has an accident at work he/she is entitled to compensation. well so is a soldier. if a civi rents a house and something is wrong with the roof for example,then he/she will get back to the landlord to get it it sorted. and again same situation with the married quarters. if something doesn't work they get back to MoD.

problem is that it seems to be alright for civis to do all this but not for soldiers (as people say its their own fault for joining up)

Answer 4

I support them 110%. Its the W**kers (politicians) who sell them out who i detest.

Answer 5

Care to list where you get your information from???

Name the military leaders who are complaining and please use their ranks as "military leaders" sounds "oh! so Burmese!!!"